WOMEN BODIES. This project took off as a matter of urgency. It all started with the observation that women – real women – are an endangered species on television, one that is being replaced by a grotesque, vulgar and humiliating representation. We sensed the enormity of this loss: the erasure of women’s identity is happening right before our eyes, but without a proper reaction, not even from women themselves. This led us to select television images that share a common manipulative exploitation of the woman’s body, to let people know what is happening–not only people who never watch television, but especially those who watch it but “don’t see.” Our aim is to ask ourselves questions, and to pose questions about the reason behind this erasure, a real “pogrom” of which all of us are silent spectators.Our project grants special attention to the erasure of adult faces on television, to the use of plastic surgery to erase any sign of the passage of time, and to the social consequences of this erasure. Il Corpo delle Donne — See also FILMS

EARTHLINGS (see FILMS) is a 2005 documentary (with Spanish subtitles) about mankind’s use of animals as pets, and for food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research. Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix the film features music by Moby — both of whom are practising vegans, as is the director Shaun Monson and co-producer Maggie Q. The film focuses on pet stores, puppy mills and animal shelters, as well as factory farms, the leather and fur trades, sports and entertainment industries — and finally the medical and scientific profession, EARTHLINGS contains footage obtained through the use of hidden cameras and chronicles the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely on animals. Advisory — this film advocates veganism

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Anarchism

Anarchism swept us away completely, because it demanded everything of us and promised everything to us. There was no remote corner of life that it did not illumine ... or so it seemed to us ... shot though with contradictions, fragmented into varieties and sub-varieties, anarchism demanded, before anything else, harmony between deeds and words
- Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary